New Member Profile Features - Add a Flickr Photo - and More
We've beefed up some of the community features, as that's the most important part of VS for us. You can now add a Flickr photo to your profile, which also shows up as a thumbnail in your comments. We chose Flickr because they can do the image moderation for us. (keeping out the porn)
Also, you can add your favorite tags, and all-time favorite VideoSift Video.
We're going to create a "Featured Member" box on the front page displaying some of this information, on a rotational basis.
So, go here and soup up your profile - we want to know what you look like! (I think ... )
Also, you can add your favorite tags, and all-time favorite VideoSift Video.
We're going to create a "Featured Member" box on the front page displaying some of this information, on a rotational basis.
So, go here and soup up your profile - we want to know what you look like! (I think ... )
13 Comments
daphneMakes mouths happy.
Thanks for adding this feature.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
You're quite welcome.
Let us know if you find anything buggy, it was the result of a coffee-induced late-night coding binge.
antDo we have to use Flickr? I don't have a Flick account, but I do have my own Web host. Can I use that?
Also, I think the avatars are TOO BIG!
James RoeHey, we are sticking to flickr for the time being. The main reason being that they already have moderating set up for "naughty" images. If you know of some other hosting service that has image filtering we would be willing to consider it, but we are trying to keep VideoSift clean with out adding the extra hassle of approving every avatar. We are willing to look at different sizes for the avatars as well, but I personally think that if we made them much smaller it would be hard to tell what you were looking at, we are certainly open to suggestions, what would be the ideal pixel size for you?
James RoeWe have gotten a report that there are some problems with the images not working in the Recent Comments if you are running IE, I will be investigating it. In the mean time of course you could always switch to firefox, ;-)
daphneThis might be a silly suggestion, but if someone is having trouble they might want to make sure the URL is correct. There is no .jpg on the end of the properties address from Flickr, and the user has to type it in manually to link to the image.
Of course, that might not be the problem. Just thought I would point it out. I'm good at pointing out the obvious.
James RoeWell the problem is more with the way IE displays images than the image setting for flickr.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
Due to Internet Explorer issues, we're taking the avatar images off temporarily. We'll fix it soon.
ant96x96, 64x64, etc. should be fine for sizes. I just don't want to go get a Flickr account just to make avatars for this cool site.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
We've shrunk the avatar picture to 50X50 Tell you what Ant - you give me a URL to a photo, and I'll fix it up for you. ( :
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
OK, flickr avatars are pretty much fixed. For some reason, they are not showing up in the "recent comments" page for IE. If we have any CSS wizards on board who would like to diagnose that issue, please let us know, otherwise ... switch to Firefox (broken record)
Leekolas says...Gravatar (http://www.gravatar.com) moderates the avatars that are uploaded. They rate all the avatars with something like the MPAA ratings. I don't know if it would be possible to integrate it with VideoSift.
antDag: http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/BorgAnt60x60.gif if you want. See, I already have custom avatars for myself.
I just don't want to use another account. Hehe!
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